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Originally Posted by xcfordan
One quick question/issue: in the "edit collecitons manually" window, is it possible to have the author column sort by last name instead of by first name? Same as it is done in Calibre?
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Just to follow this up. Calibre can do this sorting by last name because you've manually told it how you want to sort (the Author Sort field). There isn't any way to easily do this for the books on the Kindle.
As mentioned I can use the Author Sort field - but that would only be for books in Calibre and the others would be firstname lastname, and a mix sounds more confusing. You can simulate this by modifying Calibre use Author Sort for the Author's name and resend your books - then both the Kindle and the Edit Collections window would show authors listed as Lastname, Firstname. But only for Calibre managed books on the device.
For the other books, an algorithm to determine last name, firstname from firstname lastname is not straightforward. And I believe even in Calibre there are a few options to choose from when guessing what name to put in Author Sort. Handling cases of middle names, prefixed last names, suffixes like Jr, Sr. etc. make determining the last name non-trivial.
So at the moment I think I'll leave it just showing the names as found in the books. If the books are updated with last first, then the Edit list will be updated as well.